I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records.

If you can find one thing in your life that can keep you in the moment, you're totally lucky.

When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.

On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy.

I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.

The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.

When you make a great record, it's around forever.

Shit. The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn't it? Shadows grow faces.

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

I’ll never retire as long as I live—that’s like retiring from life! I’ll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you’re in good health, living is exciting on its own.

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.

The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

If what you are doing is working, DON'T change just to be different. Just get better.

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself.

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.